"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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John L Rice wrote:
I've never heard of this. How would shorting the terminals affect the
cone
movement at all? Is there a concern about static charges or stray
magnetic
fields modulating the cone or ???

Try it and see! The speaker is acting like a microphone... you change the
load on the mike, and it changes the damping.

Try pushing on the cone with the input open and then shorted... feels
very different.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Thanks Scott, I'll give that a try. I like science experiments!

John L Rice